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The hearing will examine how and whether federal regulatory agencies are conducting the type of economic analysis necessary for policymakers to understand how regulations affect employers’ ability to retain workers and hire new ones, and avoid unnecessary cost burdens.

02/15/2011 at 01:00PM

Witnesses Dr. Donald F. Boesch, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Terry D. Garcia, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Admiral Thad Allen, Ret., national incident commander for the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

02/11/2011 at 10:00AM

House Natural Resources ranking Democrat Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. hold a news conference to announce the “Ending Big Oil Tax Subsidies (EBOTS) Act.”

Contact: Eben Burnham-Snyder, 202-225-6065 (Markey) or Derek Schlickeisen, 202-225-0820 (Blumenauer)

02/10/2011 at 01:30PM

The Natural Resources Defense Council holds a conference call briefing, beginning at 11 a.m., to discuss and release a survey on data that show strong public opposition to “dismantling the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) updates to clean-up standards for carbon, smog and other pollution” proposed by House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich.

Patricipants

• Peter Altman, climate campaign director of the Natural Resources Defense Council
• Tom Jensen, director of Public Policy Polling

Contact: Leslie Anderson, 703-276-3256, [email protected]

Call-in, 800-860-2442; ask for the “EPA/Energy and Commerce Committee member surveys” news event. A streaming audio replay of the news event will be available at 4 p.m. February 10 online: http://www.nrdc.org

02/10/2011 at 11:00AM

Witnesses

• Richard Newell, administrator of the Energy Information Administration
• Gary Mar, minister-counselor of the Province of Alberta, Canada; Chris John, president of the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Assoc.
• Chris Busch, director of policy and program at the Apollo Alliance
• John Hofmeister, founder and CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy
• Adam Sieminski, chief energy economist at Deutsche Bank AG

02/10/2011 at 09:30AM

The hearing will discuss draft legislation, authored by Chairman Upton and Subcommittee Chairman Whitfield, that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing a “cap-and-trade national energy tax” through regulations under the Clean Air Act.

Witnesses

• Lisa Jackson, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
• Greg Abbott, Attorney General, State of Texas
• Harry C. Alford, President & CEO, National Black Chamber of Commerce
• Lonnie N. Carter, President and CEO, Santee Cooper
• Steve Cousins, Vice President, Lions Oil Company
• Peter S. Glaser, Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP
• Fred T. Harnack, General Manager, Environmental Affairs, US Steel Corporation
• Philip Nelson, President, Illinois Farm Bureau
• James Pearce, Director of Manufacturing, FMC Corporation
• Steve Rowlan, General Manager, Environmental Affairs, Nucor Corporation
• Dr. Margo Thorning, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, American Council for Capital Formation

02/09/2011 at 10:00AM

The two-day conference will bring together stakeholders from across the government, renewable energy industry, and conservation community to discuss the administration’s efforts to rapidly and responsibly stand-up renewable energy projects on our nation’s public lands.

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will open the workshop with a roundtable discussion about the Administration’s work to build a clean energy economy. Immediately following the roundtable, the Secretaries will hold a press conference to discuss how President Obama’s tax cuts are encouraging business investment and job creation in wind, solar and other renewable energy technologies.

Roundtable Discussion with Secretaries Salazar, Chu, Vilsack

• Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior
• Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy
• Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture

10:15 a.m. Press Conference

Department of the Interior Yates Auditorium
1849 C St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20240

All credentialed media are invited to cover the event. Please RSVP to [email protected]

02/09/2011 at 09:00AM

Witnesses

• Richard Newell, Administrator, Energy Information Administration
• Ambassador Richard H. Jones, Deputy Executive Director , International Energy Agency
• Roger Diwan, Partner and Head of Financial Advisory, PFC Energy
• Jim Burkhard, Managing Director, Cambridge Energy Research Associates

02/03/2011 at 08:16AM

The World Bank’s mission is to alleviate poverty and encourage economic growth by providing low-cost loans for worthy development projects. But the Bank has come under fire recently from some developing country critics for placing environmental policy concerns ahead of poverty reduction goals. For example, according to one critic writing recently in the New York Times, “the bank’s loans for plantation agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions – some $132 million of which have gone to palm oil cultivation – have been humanitarian and economic triumphs. Yet now, under misguided pressure from environmental groups, the Bank is turning its back on the program.” Furthermore, questions have been raised over the World Bank’s recent tendency to give greater weight to input from environmentalist NGOs than from private businesses or even sovereign nat! ions.

Join us for a larger policy discussion about the World Bank’s mission and its environmental objectives. Panelists will discuss how effective World Bank aid policies have been in alleviating poverty when they are linked to environmental or other social policies. What should the Bank’s role be in the 21st century? And how should the Congress of the United States, the Bank’s biggest funder, shape the Bank’s priorities?

Hosted by James Roberts, Research Fellow for Economic Freedom and Growth

Speakers

• Ron Bailey, Science Correspondent, Reason Magazine
• Nick Schulz, Editor-in-Chief, American.com, and Author of From Poverty to Prosperity Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph over Scarcity
• Richard Tren, Director, Africa Fighting Malaria, and Co-Author of The Excellent Powder: DDT’s Political and Scientific History

Heritage Foundation
Lehrman Auditorium
214 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington DC

01/27/2011 at 02:00PM

Witnesses

• William Reilly, Co-Chair, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling
• Bob Graham, Co-Chair, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling

01/26/2011 at 02:00PM